Northern Editorial
Sara Donaldson | Copyeditor | Copywriter
Freelance Life
Life can be manic.
One minute you’re happily tootling along, work’s just fine and all is well.
Then.
One by one.
Things start going a little off track.
You’ve got a break booked. Work slides a little. You realise you’ll have to take your work with you. The house is a mess. The house isn’t as puppyproof as you’d hope it would be. You have no time left!
The joys and wonders of freelance living …
It’s all good. I’m a little up-to-my-eyeballs at the minute, but it’s fine. We’re getting puppies! So, if all goes well the work will be done, the house will be puppyproofed and we’ll soon have two new editorial assistants to keep Moss (our 14-year-old collie) on his toes.
And if I go awol for a week or two, you know why.
One thing freelancers are brilliant at …
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“But really it be like …” HAHAHAA! You’ve always struck me as an excellent juggler, Sarah, so I expect adding puppies to the mix should be no problem. 🙂
Now there’s an image to conjour with 😂
Love it. Congrats on your puppies. Good luck to you all and particularly Moss.
Thank yooou! Puppies are mental, Moss is being very good with them and even tried playing. Having lots of ‘me time’ though so they don’t wear them out 😁
your grphics are great. Love it!
wow that is very accurate view of freelance displayed in funny drawings.
Nice post.
Thanks Doug 😄